Car-truck.



PATENTED DEC. 11, 1906.

J. GREEN.

OAR TRUCK. APPLI OATION FILE D AUG. 31, 1905.

H n-lli beneath the shoulders 2 witl portion of the side frames.

journal-boxes 3, and said retaining UNITED STATES PATENT FFIOE.

JOHN GREEN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR m J. s. ANDREWS &

COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CAR-TRUCK. a

No. sas,s19.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 11, 1906.

Application filed August 51, i905. Serial No. 276,491.

10 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN GREEN, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Car-Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to car-trucks, andhas for its principal objects to produce a caststeel car truck which shall be light and strong; t6 provide a truck having the bearing boxes so connected that they can be removed or turned only by removing the bolts; to provide a car-truck from which. the bearing-boxes may be removed in a lateral direction when the bolts are removed without raising the side frame to provide a retainin gbar for the bearing-boxes which cannot be removed so long as the bearing-boxes are in place; to provide a car-truck having means to prevent rotation of the bolts for securing the bearing-boxes; to increase the bearinghereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur, Figure 1 is a side view of the truck, the bolster, springs, and cross-tie being omitted to avoid obscuring the columns. Fig. 2 is a View, partly in plan and partly in section, on

choline 2 2 of Fig. 1, of one of the side frames.

The car-truck incorporates side frames 1, referably of cast-steel. Shoulders 2 project em each of the upper corners of the body The lower suraces of said shoulders are substantially horizontal and are arranged to rest upon journalboXes 3. The shoulders and body portion of the side frames form jou1'nal-boXreceiving recesses, which are open at one end and at the bottom. The j ournal-boxes riding upon the wheel-axles can thus be moved into place rout raising the side frames materially above the position they will assume when resting on the journalboXes. The journahb-ies are r l in place by retaining-bars and-bolt: ing through said shoulders 12, the

At the. points at which the holes to receive the bolts-5 6 pass through the shoulders 2 substantially cylindrical enlargements are provided containing at least as much metal as is removed to make the holes. Upon the top said shoulders are provided with polygonal recesses 7, centrally alined with the boltreceiving holes and having the shape of the heads of the bolts 5 6in the case illustrated square. The heads of the bolts resting in these recesses, rotation of the bolts is impossible. It is thus easy to applyzthe nuts to the bolts.

Each retaining-bar 4 has a flat portion which fits beneath the journal-box and a cylindrical portion or shank which is screw-threaded.

' The body of the side frameis provided at each si uare nuts 10 until thobolt-holes are in moment with the bolt-holes in the shoulders 2. The wheels carryin boxes are then rolled into pi ace, the bolts 5 6 inserted, and the nuts applied. The retainingbar is sufliciently flexible to provide for the irregularities in the size and surface of the cast journal-boxes. When the parts have been so assembled, the journal-boxes cannot possibly be removed until the bolts are taken out. If the nuts should be lost, the journal-boxes would still be held in place, for the lower ends'of the bolts would still be supported by the retaining-bars, the latter being firmly held in a horizontal position. The retaining-bars cannot be removed so long as the journal-boxes orthe bolts are in place, for it is necessary to turn them about their horizontal axes in order to remove them, and this will be effectually prevented either by the journal-boxes or the bolts. The strain upon the retaining-bars is almost ontirely ten'sional compressional, and hence the chance of breaking them is very remote.

cars 4. l The side it's/mes 1 are each provided with the j ournala centrally-located bolster-receiving opening ll, which is entirely surrounded by flange 12, extending on both sides of the web of the frame. At the lowest part of the opening the flanges are given such an extent as to form ears 13, to which the cross-tie and spring 'seat may be secured; The lower medial portion of the opening is wider than theupper portion. The width of this portion is slightly greater than the width of the end of a bolster measured over the columnguides. The bolster can thus be inserted at this point and then raised, the column-guides engaging the sides of the upper portion of the o ening'which constitute the columns of the sideframe. The flanges at the sides of the upper portion of the opening are substantia 1y shaped, having one part extending in ,a direction parallel with the web of the frame. This gives the columns a bearingsurface at least equal to the bearing-surface of the column-guides of the bolster and insures regularity of wear, besides reducing the depth of wear.

The body portion of the side frame is provided at its lower corners with horizontal surfaces or seats 14 of sufiicient extent to afford a seat for a lifting-jack.

Obviously my-device is capable of considerable modification within the scope of my invention, and therefore I do not wish to be limited to the s ecific construction shown and described. or example, the holes 8 in the side frames may be screw-threaded to receive the screw-threaded ends of the 'ournalbox-retaining bars Land the use of tihe nuts 10 may be avoided.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

' 1. A car-truck comprising side franiesprovided with journal-box-receivihg recesses, detachably mount ed journal box retaining bars closing one side of saidrecesses and be ing rotatably movable about longitudinal axes, journal-boxes mounted in said recesses and engaging said bars, said engagement preventin rotation of said bars, and bolts securing sai journal-boxes in place.

2.. A car-truck com rising side frames provided with journal ox-receiving recesses, detachably mounted journal box retaining bars closing one side of said recesses and being longitudinally movable, journal-boxes mounted in said recesses and engaging said gitudinal bars, and bolts assing through said' journalboxes and said bars and preventing said lonmovement of said bars.

3. A car-truck comprising side frames provided with journal box receiving recesses,

detachably mounted journal box 7 retaining barsclosing one side of said recesses and being rotatably and longitudinally movable, journal-boxes mounted in said recesses and engaging said bars, and bolts passing through said journal-boxesand said bars, said engagevided with journal-box-receiving recesses,

journal-boxes mount ed in said recesses, a de tachably mounted ournal box retaining bar for each of said recesses closing one side thereof, said bars being held against removal by engagement with said ournal-boxes, and

' bolts securing said journal-boxes in place.

5. A car-truck comprising side frames provided with ournal box receiving recesses,

journal-boxes mounted in said recesses, jour nal-box-retainingbars having screw-threaded shanks ent ering the body portions of said side frames and flat faces engaging said journal boxes, said side frames and journal boxes having .alined bolt-holes and bolts passing through said alined bolt-holes.

6. A car-truck comprising side frames pro vided with journal-box-receiving recesses, journal-boxes mounted in said recesses, nuts non-rot atably mounted on the body portions of said side frames, journalbox-retaining bars having screwthreaded engagement with said nuts and so engaging said journal-boxes as to prevent rotation of said bars, and bolts securing said ljournal-boxes in place.

7. A car-truck comprising side frames each.

having a body portion and projecting shoulders at its upper-corners integral therewith, the lower surface of said shoulders being plane and arranged to be seated on journalboxes, a journal-b ox-retaining bar detachably connect ed to each of the lower corners of said body portion of said side frames andarranged to engage the lower side of the corresponding journal-box, journal-boxes mounted between said shoulders and said bars, and bolts securing said j ournal-boxes in place. A

8; A truck side frame comprising a body portion, shoulders at the upper corners of said body ortion and integral therewith, the lower surfiices of said shoulders being substantially horizontal, and detachable bars mounted on the frame above its lower corners and substantially rigidly held parallel with the lower surfaces of said shoulders.

9. A truck side frame comprising a body portion, shoulders at the upper corners of said body portion and integral therewith, the lower surfaces of said shoulders being substantially horizontal and detachable 'bars upon the lower corners of said body portion and substantiallyrigidly held in a position lower corners of said body portion being provided with intersecting holes, a nut non-rotatably mounted in one of each set 01 interse'cting holes and a bar mounted in the other inounted in said round holes and having of said holes and en aging said nut. screw-threaded engagement with said nuts.

11. A truck side l rame comprising a body In witness whereof I have signed my name portion, shoulders at the upper corners of to this specification, in the resence of two 5 said body portion and integral therewith, the subsoribingwitnesses, at ouis, Missouri, :5

lower corners of said body portion being prothis 29th day of August, 1905. vided' with round holes extending longitudi- JOHN GREEN. nally and polygonal holes intersecting said Witnesses: round holes, polygonal nuts non-rotatably JAMES A. CARR,

10 mounted in said polygonal holes, and bars J. B. MEGOWN 

